What happens when alphorns echo through the streets of Zürich? They inspire short form poetry from around the world — and this week’s episode features some of the best!These original haiku and senryū were written in response to June’s Video Prompt — a monthly moment of creativity on our YouTube channel. ✍️✨Featuring voices like: 🖋️ Daniela Misso 🖋️ Lakshmi Iyer 🖋️ Rupa Anand 🖋️ Sara Winteridge 🖋️ Amy Watsonmore from Switzerland’s own haiku poets!🎧 Listen now to discover the power of poetic echoes — and how alphorns brought the mountains to the city streets.👉 Don’t forget: July’s prompt is live! Write your response and leave it in the comments to be considered for the podcast and journal.Every month, except December, there is a short video on the Poetry Pea YouTube channel and you are invited to leave your poems, as many as you want, in the comments section under the video. The poems that are chosen by our editor Linda Ludwig, are featured in podcasts and of course in the Poetry Pea Journal.Submission criteria.show notes
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S8E29 All the colours of butterflies in haiku
🐛🕷️ Creepy Crawlies Have Entered the Chat… This week on the Poetry Peacast, we’re getting under your skin — in the best possible way — with a fresh collection of haiku and short form poetry inspired by the little creatures that wriggle, buzz, crawl, and fly.🦋 Featuring poems from Poetry Pea Journals past (and a few haiku legends), this episode explores beauty in the overlooked — from dragonflies to snails to crickets (yes, even cockroaches get a cameo).💚 Special shout-out to Liam Maguire, whose presentation on insect haiku actually inspired Patricia to write about bugs (gasp!), and to Linda Ludwig, who’s wrapping up her time as editor of our Video Prompt feature. We’ll miss her guiding hand — let’s make her final month unforgettable.🎧 Tune in now & find out why these “deceptive little poems” are anything but simple. Then, get writing — August's Creepy Crawly submission is open! 📝Liam Maguire’s presentation show notes
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S8E28 Poetry Pea Reading with Julie Bloss Kelsey
What does healing sound like in haiku?This week, poet Julie Bloss Kelsey joins me to read from her deeply moving collection, Grasping the Fading Light: A Journey Through PTSD — winner of the 2021 International Women’s Haiku Contest.Her work brings vulnerability, strength, and beauty to the page. Together we explore grief, trauma, recovery, and resilience — through the gentle force of haiku, senryū, and tanka.This is an episode full of humanity and hope. You might think it’s not for you — but poetry this honest speaks to all of us.Also available to watch on Poetry Pea's YouTube channel.shownotes
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S8E27 Creepy Crawly Haiku
An episode of haiku poetry presented by Liam Maguire on the topic of creepy crawlies. Honestly he does a brilliant job. He's inspired me to write and I hope he'll inspire you to write too. Check out the submission diary.You can read the slides on the YouTube version or check them our at Buy Me A Coffee, where you can support the work of the podcast in many ways.Show notes
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S8E26 There is No Haiku without Zoka
Without zoka, there is no haiku…Zoka — the creative, the generative force that animates the universe — is more than a concept. It's the heartbeat of haiku.In this week’s Poetry Pea Podcast, I reflect on Janice Doppler’s brilliant essay, “Following Bashō, Following Zoka,” and the powerful conversations it’s sparked within our community. I talk about my own grappling with the idea — from my strict Catholic upbringing to gradually recognizing zoka in my writing, even before I had the language for it.We’ll explore what haiku can be when we allow transformation, transience, and seasonality to rise above static images or generic kigo. 🌀What does it mean to feel the seasons in an urban space? How can we write haiku that breathe and evolve with nature — not just describe it?🎙️ Tune in and journey with us through change, through poetry, through zoka.Show notes
About Poetry Pea - haiku and other English Language Japanese short forms
Poetry Pea is a poetry podcast from www.poetrypea.com. It features haiku and senryu and other Japanese short form poetry. There are lots of free writing resources, workshops from experts, readings of original poetry, haiku and senryu, as well as prompts and writing exercises. You can submit your haiku or senryu to Patricia and be featured on the podcast and in the Poetry Pea Journal. Let’s write together.
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